Lessons From A High School Dropout

Too often when we find ourselves stuck or in a quandary that is challenging us we feel a great sense of inadequacy. Yet, the very same problem can land on the desk of a co-worker or classmate who feels none of the feelings of inadequacy. Then you suddenly feel alone and even more ashamed or lost in the feelings of inadequacy.   This is where the curse of never being satisfied begins. As we look around the reason is often due to feelings of being insuficienct or inadequate.

As we look from the outside as Bobby Burns sees it, we should see ourselves as others see us.   We really have no reason to feel inferior at all, and we certainly have no business talking, thinking or feeling poorly about ourselves. God did not create your spirit with faults. You are created in the “image” of God.

You and I can’t see God and you and I cannot see the God part of ourselves. This matters because we certainly don’t always think like God, so why in God’s world would we always or even sometimes embrace a negative connotation towards any part of our physical body.   Our body is of this world while our true nature is not of this physical world. We basically are like fish out of water judging one another in spite of the fact we all l arrived here the very same way.

Many people who have far less talents, less abilities, less skills, less proficiencies, less going for them are getting along fine.   I would like to ask you a few questions you likely have never asked yourself.  Do you enjoy your own company?   Do you seem anywhere near as nice to yourself as you appear to me?

Do you look in a miror and experience a great sense of gratitude for the person you see in the mirror before you?  Can you praise that person, be thankful for that person and sometimes say nice things to that person, or is that kinda difficult to do?

If the answer is basically no to this then it’s very tragic, because the feelings that you have about yourself will certainly color and influence everything that happens in you, to you and around you and this will likely continue throughout all of your life.

Lessons From A High School Dropout Podcast is dedicated to all of our uniquely gifted minds who at some point felt sadly alone as they struggled with the challenge of learning or discouraged for holding the vision and dreams within their brilliant minds.

Lessons From A High School Dropout is here to support the spirit of the entrepreneur, the student, the employee and to help build these dreams upon the gifts each one of us are endowed with.

Maybe you were told you couldn’t do something and needed to choose another path. We all learn in our own special way, each with a unique desire for a sense of fulfillment in our journey. We affirm that with each lesson you will be more inspired to learn new things to help you with your walk in life.

A walk that will take you down the "Road Less Traveled". A walk where you will learn new things and allow your heart to be inspired with a new road map that can and will elevate you to a higher consciousness.

My hero’s in life began with guys like Elvis and Johnny Cash. My attraction to Elvis was the story of a poor kid rising to fame from very humble beginnings, his style, his music and how he held such a commanding presence inside every auditorium he ever stepped into. My admiration for Johnny Cash was from learning how during his early  years, he struggled with drugs and alcohol. Then went on to become an international inspiration to others as he shared his music that was instilled deep within his heart. I have always admired the guy or girl who battles demons, overcomes poverty, discover their gifts and move to fulfill their dreams, out of a somewhat hell many often create like myself.

When looking for hero’s, I have a scale that challenges the measure of man!
I didn’t hold much interest in the common things of life. Common to me is lame and boring, I was attracted to those who shared a gift they discovered from deep within their soul and not necessarily from common backgrounds.

It is time we travel further down the discovery of the hero’s “Road Less Traveled”.

My first hero to reflect on is my father, but we often do not recognized this until we reach into the age of our thirties when we recognize these qualities. So be patient, your hero is down the road a little further, just keep walking.

Think about this, if we are willing to look back into our lives and contemplate events that have taken place in our lives which moved us in a special way, we will often find these people walking on the road less traveled. This can provide the opportunity to learn valuable lessons from them. My father was the man who did not hold onto judgement, so my past was never brought up unless he was recognizing my choices and giving me wonderful accolades time and time again. Never did he judge me for my actions. He took the high road every time and was always inspiring me to keep up the great work. The greatest gift my hero father gave to me was unconditional love, and the same unconditional love to each of his six children.

Hero’s can often be excellent cooks! My mother is also on this list of hero’s as I refer back to the two books Lessons In Truth and Healing Letters which she intuitively mailed to me with an understanding that they could help me on my walk. As you read in chapter one how those books lifted my heart to an awakening, where I truly discovered I could read and with enough effort in pushing through I could  comprehend the meaning of a story if only I would keep reading it over and over again and again. More importantly those two books lead me to discover my spiritual walk that my soul recognized like I had known this all along. Finding our walk in life often comes through the little synchronicities of life. Passing these events off in our minds as a coincident with a hidden meaning like “as luck would have it” just doesn’t fly with me and never did.
People often tend to simplify how these occur which discounts them, rather than look for the divine connections that bring powerful moments together. Synchronicity to me is a word we should be speaking into the young minds, so that in our future we eliminate the passing off these powerful events as “happen chance” and embrace the full power of how God aligns all this to take place.
Often our Newtonian minds mislabel the Devine as happen chance rather than give full credit to the source who created all things.  

A little counseling never hurts anyone, so I now introduce you to my earthly angel and hero Irma Froe. 

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Thank you for all your support!  Troy Thomas Joseph Fitch   

This is a story told by Buddha to his students studying to become Brahmans. A widower who loved his five year old son very much was away on business. A group of bandits came and burned down the entire village and took his son away. When the man returned he saw the ruins and he panicked. He took the chard corps of an infant  to be his child. He began to pull his hair and beat his chest crying uncontrollably.   He organized a cremation ceremony and collected the ashes and placed them into a beautiful velvet pouch.

Working, sleeping or eating he always carried the bag of ashes with him. One day his real son escaped from the robbers and found his way home.   He arrived at his fathers new cottage at midnight and knocked at the door. You can imagine at that time the young father who was still carrying the bag of ashes and crying. He asked who is there and the child answered, it’s me Papa open the door it’s your son. In his agitated state of mind the father thought it was some mischievous boy that was making fun of him and he shouted at the child to go away and he continued to cry. The boy knocked again and again but the father refused to let him in. Some time passed and finally the child left and from that time on father and son never saw one another again. And after telling this story the Buddha said,  sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth, if you cling to it so much when the truth comes in person and knocks at your door, you will refuse to open it. It’s a powerful story for young students learning to be Brahmans and it’s a powerful story for each and everyone of us.

Music: Cafe De Anatolia ~ Ghent Nemnon Live at Baalbeck, Lebanon  

Lessons From A High School Dropout Podcast is dedicated to all of our uniquely gifted minds who at some point felt sadly alone as they struggled with the challenge of learning or discouraged for holding the vision and dreams within their brilliant minds.   

Lessons From A High School Dropout is here to support the spirit of the entrepreneur, the student, the employee and to help build these dreams upon the gifts each one of us are endowed with. Maybe you were told you couldn’t do something and needed to choose another path. We all learn in our own special way, each with a unique desire for a sense of fulfillment in our journey. We affirm that with each lesson you will be more inspired to learn new things to help you with your walk in life. A walk that will take you down the "Road Less Traveled". 

A walk where you will learn new things and allow your heart to be inspired with a new road map that can and will elevate you to a higher consciousness.  

Creating a resolution for change in your life takes the same effort as changing your habits, we are simply using different techniques to arrive at the state of change. It's a mental focus that allows us to recognize our thoughts. Ninety five percent of our thoughts are the very same thoughts as the day before. So if you believe that your thoughts are somehow connected  to your life, then the same thoughts always lead to the same choices. The same choices always lead to the same behaviors. The same behaviors create the same experiences and the same experiences produce the same emotions and those very same emotions drive the very same thoughts so your biology, your neurocircuitry, your neurochemistry, your neurohormones and even your genetic expression is equal to how you think, how you act and how you feel. So how you think and how you act is called your personality and your personality creates your personal reality.That it!

So if you wake up every morning, get out of bed on the same side, shut the alarm off with the very same finger, shuffle into the bathroom and use the toilet like you always do. Go and get a cup of coffee in your favorite mug and get in the shower and wash off in the same routine way. Drive to work, see the same people that push the same emotional buttons, do the same things that you have memorized and do so well. Then hurry up and go home and hurry up and check your emails, then hurry up and check your Facebook and watch your favorite TV show, then hurry up and go to bed. Here is my question, did your brain change at all that day?

So let’s get to the subject of learning. Now every time you learn something new you make new connections in your brain. That’s what learning is forming, new synaptic connections within the brain. That’s what learning is! Physical evidence as a result of your interaction in the environment and the footprints of consciousness is called learning, making new synaptic connections within the brain. The Nobel Prize Laureate Eric Kandell in the year 2000, found that when people learned one bit of information they doubled the number if connections in their brain from 1300 connections to 2600 connections, but if they didn’t review that information if they couldn’t repeat it, if they couldn’t remember it, those circuits pruned apart in hours or days. So if learning is making new synaptic connections, then remembering is maintaining and sustaining those connections.

Take time out of each day to ask yourself in the early part of your day what is the best version of myself I can be today? Take time to analyze and critique your thoughts and feelings to help you consciously create a new "state of being". A state of consciousness over time that will create new pathways in your thinking, your feelings and that is the foundation to a change in conscious.

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Awakening our consciousness to discover or rediscover our independent nature is truly the key to opening up to our true potential and creating a more meaningful life designed by the architect from within. Our people all across this great nation and the mass of people of our modern world have fallen asleep. 

My mission is to speak greatness in us all and demonstrate how we can discover our gift for fulfill our dreams and vision.  Over two hundred and forty four years ago, there was a revolution, an American Revolution. An event that literally changed the course of history. It was led by a group of unsatisfied people. People who were tired of being told what they could do and when they could do it.  

People were fed up with their lack of personal choice and their lack of their personal freedoms. People fed up with their lives being controlled by others. Fed up with being oppressed, fed up with being manipulated, and they finally said enough, I’ve had it and I ‘m not going to live like this anymore. 

We changed from and independent people to a dependent people. We had slowly shifted to a people that took full responsibility for everything that happened to them, to people who became talented and practiced at the art of blaming others for their problems.

Our giant has fallen asleep. Our forefathers didn’t say who is going to take care of me? They simply said, “All I ask is the opportunity to be free and the ability to take care of myself and my family.” We’ve slowly changed from a society that compensates based on value, to a society that compensates based on entitlement and seniority. We we’ve come to believe it is our due. We act if is someone actually owes us a living. Part of this change is due to the dramatic rise of conformity in our society. We are all taught to conform. Incredible pressures are put on us every day to do things the “The Right Way” And yet no-one asked the question is this really, the right way? There’s another revolution coming and it’s going to be led by a group of unique and courageous people like YOU. The people in this country are special, the people of this magnificent world are special, you are special because there is only one you! One you that was given the gift of choice, the gift of desire, the gift of a powerful intelligence deep within each of us.    

Today we stand at the genesis of a new revolution and people like you are going to lead it. 

Theodore Roosevelt said these words more than 100 years ago and I think they are appropriate today. 

He said, “We see across the dangers of the great future and we rejoice as a giant refreshed, the great victories are yet to won the greatest deeds yet to be done.”   This precious Gift is within us all… I love you all thank you for taking time to listen and share this message to the family of humanity all across our mighty God’s magnificent earth. 

My name is Troy Thomas Joseph Fitch Your 1982, High School Dropout  

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When you choose an alter ego you want to choose someone real or fictional who’s most known for the qualities and attributes you would like more or less of in your life. It doesn’t have to be one quality it can be several. You might want to start with one or two so then you can shape your alter ego as you begin working with it.  Today we are talking about this surprising tool that can transform your life and ways that we can invoke this ability into our lives.   

Now answer these questions honestly!  Do you sometimes wish you were someone else, maybe a famous actor, a rock star, a successful author or investor.  Think about this question seriously and pause.   Do you sometime wish you had better skills with handling money or public speaking, better at presentations a better listener.   

Here is a fun statistic as of 2018 45% of male consumers surveyed had seen one or more of the Marvel movies and 38% women have watched one or more of the movies too. The most popular films if you would like to know are the Iron Man movies with roughly 48% men and 41% women having seen at least one Iron Man movie!  

Now you need to stick with me here because this can bring real meaningful change in your life.   Example Public Speaking ~ Jerry Seinfeld publicly joked about how at a funeral most people would rather be in the person in the coffin, rather than the one delivering the eulogy.   

Peak Performance Coach Todd Herman refers to this hat as s totem.  Todd’s book The Alter Ego Effect shares how an “object” can invoke a particular personality.  Winston Churchill spent a fair amount of time before choosing the hat he would wear as he was to became Prime Minister by the King of England.   Martin Luther King wore glasses to invoke a sense of confidence and bring focus to his delivery of his incredible speeches. If you have never listen to his speeches I highly recommend taking time to listen to his words.   Both Churchill and King used “Props” to invoke the same tool you can use to show up as your best, smartest, savviest or funniest self and that tool is known as the Alter Ego.

Stephanie Carlson professor and Director of Child Development at the University of Minnesota. Took four year olds and split them in two small groups. They placed a toy in a clear box and gave the children an assortment of keys to a locked box. What the children were not told is that none of the keys would not open the box.   The researcher’s told one group to select a character they could pretend they were while they performed this task. Someone like Batman or Dora The Explorer they even had the option to wear a cape.   Professor Carlson already knew children are inclined to pretend to play. What the researcher’s were looking for was how these children bring pretend to play into a serious task. The other group were not given any special instructions.  They were using what is called their Executive Functioning which includes  Flexible Thinking Working Memory  Impulse Control  The children who took on a character and pretended that they were Batman or Dora The Explorer as they attempted to open the box seemed to be more relaxed flexible thinkers than those who didn’t. They spent more time to try to open the box, they tried more keys and over all they were more calmer. As one child stated, “Batman Doesn’t Get Frustrated”.

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Everyone has a Gift. Most people never discover what lies deep inside each of them. Listen as Troy shares how his Gift was revealed through a dream at the young age of sixteen and began learning how to use his Gift throughout his life.